Too bad you probably couldn’t require new employees to sign a contract for an agreed multiyear period of service. I suppose those who want out early would just try to provoke their own firing.
Simpler approach is to include a requirement to re-pay for training, pro-rated for how long they have worked since the training. No messy issue about contractual terms and trying to tie them down; just if they leave, they may have to re-pay some of the training costs.
A good idea, but, in Atamasama’s situation, I wouldn’t be surprised if the new employers pick up the tab.
Oh, what a relief it is.
I wonder if, in all the back-and-forth communications between the plotters, if any thought was given to what their response would be to the inevitable Dem outrage, if the plot had been successful.
I think the plan was that any Democrat who complained would either be shot, or sent to prison on made up charges
They were going full authoritarian.
Yep, that seems to be it. Weren’t Stone, Eastman and Bannon pushing for him to invoke the insurrection act or some such? I’m fairly certain some of them foolishly thought the military would just go along and follow orders.
I suspect that a lot of them really thought the country was overwhelmingly behind them and there wouldn’t be much resistance.
Ayup. A lot of those folks live so completely inside the RW bubble that their perceptions of reality are hopelessly warped.
You think that the “silliness” of the idea would prevent Meal Team Sixpack from attempting it (and quite possibly getting somebody hurt or killed)?
No.
I think the general wimpiness of the American people will prevent it. Nobody is going to fight for Donald Trump, because Americans don’t fight. If we don’t have overwhelming force, we fold like cards.
Shit, when the FBI went into Maralago and made him their bitch, did anyone protest for anything other than TV coverage at Maralago? Lol, tis to laugh. Meanwhile, I’m hanging at the local FBI office with an ‘arrest Trump’ sign for over a week… and nary a counter protestor.
Not. A. One.
Wasn’t that a common refrain among countries who were subsequently beaten by the U.S.? I’m not saying you’re necessarily wrong, but I don’t think the evidence really supports it.
Yes, when we have organized, overwhelming force. When we don’t, we just bow to the wishes of corporations and government.
You know how Trump keeps wankering about how he ordered ten thousand National Guard? There is some truth to that, because according to the report he was trying to get those 10K NG called up to escort him and protect him from Antifa during his victory march to the Capitol, a request that I’m sure was discreetly quashed by his fellow co-conspirators, who learned that co-conspiring with a toddler wasn’t easy.
This is a detail I found in the report.
See: Greneda, 1983. 3000 Marines sent in to deal with a force of…18 Cubans. Not eighteen thousand. Not eighteen hundred. EIGHTEEN.
I’m amazed even Clint Eastwood had the gall to make a movie about it.
You really have lost your marbles.
See: Viet Nam, Afghanistan.
Americans will cross a half frozen river to kill you on Christmas. Not kidding. We’ve done it before.
Lol, when ordered to. When supported by the US government and given overwhelming force by which to exercise their will.
The idea that a bunch of Americans are going to organize themselves to conduct a low-odds jailbreak of Donald is as big a fantasy as anything Stallone ever concocted. Literally.
We just told a bunch of railroad workers to pound sand for them daring to want sick days. Nobody fought for them. Of course not: Americans are easily cowed, easily ordered, and do not fight for principle… unless, again, ordered to by our corporate or government masters.
Shit, let’s run the numbers:
74,000,000 voters (100%)
10,000 ‘Stop the Steal’ attendees (.0135%, a 99.986% drop off)
1,000 (est) broke int9 the Capitol (a 90% drop off from attendee rallies)
0, zilch, nada, none: spontaneous J6 demonstrations in other cities.
Like I said many times over the years: the idea that masses of people are going to fight for Donald Trump is a fantasy. When he actively organized them, 10,000 people showed up. One out of every 8,000 Trump voters.
That’s a bowel movement, not a mass movement.
Maybe you haven’t lost your marbles, but you certainly were careless in your blanket statement, which follows:
